An assessment of oceanic variability for 1960-2010 from the GFDL ensemble coupled data assimilation

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 40, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 775-803

  Chang, You Soon ^a,b   Zhang, Shaoqing ^a   Rosati, Anthony ^a   Delworth, Thomas L ^a   Stern, William F ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Ensemble coupled data assimilation; Oceanic variability; Reanalysis

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; WIND STRESS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84874949113     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1412-2     Document Type: Article

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